Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being heathen.
- noun The countries inhabited by heathens; heathendom.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun State of being heathen or like the heathen.
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Examples
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And I was only fifteen, alii kapo over them by blood of heathenness and right of hereditary heathen rule, with a penchant for Jules Verne and shortly to sail for England for my education!
SHIN-BONES 2010
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She is one sister that is tried of this heathenness activity in Washington DC!
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Taking the heathenness a bit further, sometimes I believe it is perfectly acceptable, especially when transcribing a conversation, to contract it further to a'ight.
Alright Already! 2008
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And I was only fifteen, alii kapo over them by blood of heathenness and right of hereditary heathen rule, with a penchant for Jules Verne and shortly to sail for England for my education!
Shin-Bones 1919
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Christianity was now to be brought face to face with heathenness, which fact our author seems to have recognized under all his terror.
Stories of Childhood Various 1885
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And perchance he would not have refused this honor if he might thereby turn them from their heathenness and make of them good Christians.
Margery — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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And perchance he would not have refused this honor if he might thereby turn them from their heathenness and make of them good Christians.
Margery — Volume 06 Georg Ebers 1867
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And perchance he would not have refused this honor if he might thereby turn them from their heathenness and make of them good Christians.
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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The aristocratic front row felt itself to be too intimate with civilization to care much about it; and the three arm-chairs, or rather that special one which contained Mrs. Proudie, considered that there was a certain heathenness, a pagan sentimentality almost amounting to infidelity, contained in the lecturer's remarks, with which she, a pillar of the Church, could not put up, seated as she was now in public conclave.
Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1848
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But to this piece of learned heathenness -- say'st thou the Scot met him in the desert? "
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910
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